Adam Savage generally has a good idea of what the outcome will be when he tests fictional science concepts with real world science, and he loves taking a major part of a pop culture franchise and putting it to the test.
This time around he's tackling
the issue of blasters in Star Wars, which he says people have been
wrongly referring to as "laser blasters" for decades.
Star
Wars fans know the blasters actually fire particle beam energy which is
referred to as a "bolt", but others assume these colorful bolts are
lasers, which spurred Adam to prove once and for all that they can't be
lasers.
He also proves something
rather unexpected during the test- those blaster bolts were mighty slow,
slow enough that an alert combatant actually could have dodged them. No
wonder the Stormtroopers can't hit the broad side of a Star Destroyer!
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